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    Shingles

    I'm in England, my mum still has shingles after 6 weeks. She's still fairly cheerfull but describes the pain like someone sticking little knives in even though she's on the strongest pain relief tablets the doctor will prescribe. Sleeps sat up on the sofa to avoid laying on a rash. Had the...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Today I refitted most of the interior trim. Then did some gardening :-( The drive has some hawthorn trees alongside which are slow growing and OK but there's some sort of quick growing shoots that have been climbing up the hawthorn trees and hanging down to the point they reach my car...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Thanks, I don't think there's a problem with the sender at the moment... I had a problem with the car style dash gauges, all the gauges were pointing to the wrong positions but I fixed that by just removing the dials from the needles and repositioning them. With the drive removed I had a friend...
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    WARNING !! WARNING !! About brand new sparkplugs I bought.

    On some NGK precious metal plugs (platinum / iridium) the last 2 numbers (if present) are the pre-set gap in 1/10ths of a millimetre.
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    I was undecided whether to refit the rear trim before testing the boat but decided to refit it. With the rear trim refitted it'll be OK for anyone to come with me when I first test the boat, without rear trm fitted it limits the number of seats and leaves spinning bits of engine exposed. Only...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Thanks, I havent had a good look at the sender yet or researchd how to change/adjust it. I just see 2 wires disappearing into the rear transom stuff lol. I did read somewhere that it's an engine out job if it needs changing? Come to think of it, I think it will work. Before I fitted the drive...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Used the same little pump I used for filling the leg with hypoid oil for filling the tilt/trim pump after thoroughly washing it out, same threads as the drive drain plug hole. Just had to keep disconnecting the tube from the pump to let the air pressure out. A lot less potential for making a...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    He certainly is, I enjoy watching his videos and have watched quite a few, they've proven useful for all sorts of things such as finding out where the ancillary brackets bolt on the engine (or rather water pump) which I found by watching a video of him change ancillary drive belts. The only...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    At 9:45 into Michael's video (that I linked to above) he removes the expansion valve. There are 3 seals on the expansion valve one of which is white and differs from all the other seals because it's white and some kind of harder material. My white seal has a fairly neat looking 45 degree split...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Thanks, I'm just copying Michael's method really so credit should go to him. In my last post picture the 2 O rings outside the O ring box are one that I took off and same size as one I replaced it with. The one I took off had very slight scuffing in an area on it's outer edge and (if the one I...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    I looked all over the internet, made phone enquiries, etc, nowhere has a kit for the pump. I bought a few sets of O rings, mostly metric but one imperial set. Today I removed the trim pump, stripped it and currently checking O rings and replacing any I think are suspect (if I've got suitable...
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    Mercruiser hose hanging from exterior transom components

    Thanks, I will pass this information on to my friend.
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    Mercruiser hose hanging from exterior transom components

    Asking for a friend, this isn't my boat. What is this hose hanging at the rear?
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Thanks, I've used lots of hydraulic equipment in the past (and we all have PAS on cars) and I can understand a bit of squealing but this sounds kind of half squeal half grating, I wondered if there was a problem with the connection between the motor and pump or some an internal problem with the...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Thanks for the tips Lou. I'd prefer to address the pump first because I can't access the pump with boat interior trim refitted but can access the rams, and I don't know if it's the pump/rams/both that need fixing. That said, if I knew it was the rams at fault I could fix them with the parts...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Kit 3854397 just contains O rings, no hard parts. I looked at the Marineengine.com site and added all the O rings that kit 3854397 contains to 'my basket'. Some of the original parts are no longer made but in most cases there is an equivalent part that is available. I compiled a list of part...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    I looked at the link you sent, part #65 is 3854247 which does match the part number on my marina's website, so would you agree the marina I contacted has the correct kits to rebuild my rams? I've been researching pump rebuild kits, knew I'd watched a Michael Romer video rebuilding the same...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    I emailed a marina to ask if they could supply a rebuild kit for my rams and pump (and sent them pictures of my rams and pump). This was their reply... Hi Simon, Im afraid the ram seal kits are the only item we can help with, we have no supply for the end caps required...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    Thanks. I did a bit more reading and it seems lots of these rebuild kits are aftermarket with complaints about quality. Maybe they're all aftermarket if OMC no longer exists? 2 Rams so would I need 2 of these kits? I might ask a hydraulics company like this...
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    1996 Four Winns Sundowner with 5.0 Cobra engine and drive

    I found this on Ebay, does it look like the correct parts to you? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314922204566
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